Silkair, stop this discriminatory practice

In the last 2 days Silkair has been advertising their promotional fares to regional destinations. The prices look attractive certainly except there’s one catch: like its parent company SIA, Silkair demands two to travel out and travel back.

I asked Bernard, a brilliant mathematician, about the two-to-go proviso. “Now, Bernard, if two persons were to go separately isn’t it the same. 1 plus 1 is still 2, isn’t it?” I asked.

Thinking I was laying a trap of some kind for him, he glared at me. “Of course. It’s just a gimmick.”

It’s not easy to get a travelling partner. Silkair senior management should themselves give it a try.

Silkair needs to change its business strategy. Its two-to-go is at best a clever strategy, at worst, discriminatory.

For a regular independent traveller like me, and there are thousands in similar predicament, Silkair has therefore lost us as potential customers.

Ok, look askance at independent travellers. Fortunately there are many other airlines without this discriminatory practice. In this financial crisis, Silkair would be foolish to persist with this practice.

The only time I could enjoy a ride in SIA was in 1985 when I managed to buy a return ticket from Winnipeg, Canada. Tickets there were so reasonably priced with the students’ concession that I was the envy of many ‘underprivileged’ in Singapore.

I haven’t had a ride in SIA since. I can’t afford the exorbitant sums they charge. Like the Chingay Parade, it’s all for profit.